Big Data Engineering Developer

The Applications Development Senior Programmer/Lead Analyst is an senior level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
• Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Core Responsibilities

This role is for a Data Engineering Lead to work on the Vanguard Big Data Platform.  The team is responsible for the maintenance and development of leading Big Data initiatives and use cases providing business value.

• Interface with product teams to understand their requirements to build the ingestion pipelines and conformance layer for consumption by business.
• Work closely with the data ingestion team to track the requirements and drive the build out of the canonical models
• Provide guidance to the data conformance team for implementing the requirements/changes/enhancements to the conformance model
• Do hands-on development as part of the conformance team to deliver the business requirements
• Manage the workload of the team and the scrum process to align it with the objectives and priorities of the product owners
• Participate in data management activities related to the Risk and Regulatory requirements as needed.

Core Skills

The Data Engineering Senior Programmer will be working very closely with a team of data engineers working on our Big Data Platform. The Senior Developer will need the below core skills –

• Strong solid understanding of the Big Data architecture and the ability to trouble shoot performance and/or development issues on Hadoop (Cloudera preferably)
• 9+ years of experience working with Hive, Impala and Hbase, Kudu Spark for data curation/conformance related work
• Strong proficiency in Spark for development work related to curation/conformance. Strong Scala developer (with previous Java background) preferred.
• Experience with Spark/Storm/Kafka or equivalent streaming/batch processing and event based messaging
• Strong data analysis skills and the ability to slice and dice the data as needed for business reporting
• Experience working in an agile environment with a fast paced changing requirements.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Strong Communication skills

Additional Requirements (good to have)

• Cloudera/Hortonworks/AWS EMR, Couchbase, S3 experience a plus
• Experience with the AWS or GCP tech stack components
• Relational and NoSQL database integration and data distribution principles experience
• Experience with API development and use of JSON/XML/Hypermedia data formats
• Analysis and development across Lines of business including Payments, Digital Channels, Liquidities, Trade, Client Experience
• Cross train and fertilize functional and technical knowledge,
• Align to Engineering Excellence Development principles and standards.
• Promote and increase our Development Productivity scores for coding
• Fully adhere to and evangelize a full Continuous Integration and Continuous Deploy pipeline
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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